Improvement in methods of imposing and printing from newspaper forms



ZSh eets SheetIC" W. D. HUGHES. I

Method of Imposing and Printingfrom Newspaper Forms.

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Barnum is married.

We P. T. Barnum.

The Quaker loves the ocean because of its broad brim.

Why should a. splder he a good conesponrlent? Becnnsehe drops a line by every post.

'i'woheads are hetter than oneospe cioily in a barrel.

The hump of destructtveness-a rtllmod collision.

There are many who can't read who know a. bee sees.

If those Brooklyn people all get the damages they claim in their lihel suits,

they will he unanimonsly of the opinion that lihel suits them.

A politician spoke of his conscience as an inward moni- Yes. said the auditor, it's a reg'!ar iron-clad.

An old gender was recently killed in Virginia at the age of ninety. Thename oi the fortunate boarding-honse that drew the prim isnotglven.

Why is a froglike atom! of bread! Because We raised by hops. I

A bright boy told his teacher there were three the male sex, the femnlE SEX,8lld insects.

sexes- Foot-pads-hu nion plasters,

NOVELTDS FOR 1875.

FENTON d: 60.,

917 CHI'STNUT ST.

new and elegant designs of FREXCH,

EIEGLISH,

and

AMERICAN PERCALB AND CAMBRICS,

for Shining and of Dress Styles,

with special View to the SPRING TRADE.

The attention ofthe trnde is espeeiallyim vited to an inspection of these goods.

Are receiving daily THE 7 EVENING RECORD.

YOL. X.

PHI LADELE'HIA. JASIJAEY, 1873.

Vnlnl of Beading.

Somatter how ohsenre the position in life of an individual,

ifho can read he may at will put himself in the best nfrociety the world has erorseett.

' He may converse with all the writers in rose and poetry.

He may learn how to live, how to avoid 31 error! of life.

CDL'KSXKG is oneot the amusements of the season in Californlo.

Tm: Orleans family in France are said to be selling oil their real estate.

Progress.

Printers made use of but one side of the leaf when first the art of printing was disthey had not found out the excorered pedientoflmpresslng the nlher. 'l'hlsidea mine to them only by degrees, and after they had tried the experiment of posting the blank sides together in make two leaves appelr like one.

SIYIZRAL his] cases are reported from Scotland of persons overwhelmed in the snow.

items.

Last year Bud 10 made 151,248 barrels of beer and 17,4:8

barrels of ale, 3 full lng ofl of 27,000 harrels from theprerions year.

Calitornia is noted for the excellence of her honey, and will export looflwponnds of honey.

Thesilver and gold ore reins from Newbnryport mina have been traced 15 miles into New Hampshire.

George Brown, the

champion carmnnjs reported to he dangeronsly ill at l-hlrfax.

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k W. D. HUGHES. Method of Imposing and Printing from Newspaper Forms.

No. 165,833. Patentedluly20,i875.

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THE' RECORD;

PHILADELPHIA:

'F 'rxnin'. Jan. 1875.

The year n47.- has been entered upon.

Let those who have been spared toseeit be lhankiul: and let them resolve to impror'e their habits, to

abandon whatever of error there may have been in their wagsto pardon tresptmcs, to

be reconciled [0 all with whom they may have been at variance to the end that all may live peaceiully and in with each other.

The yearjust ulrserl has not been without its marked events.

The panic has taught I. lmn nlgreat value It has demonstrated that the extravagant and destructive habits so much indulged in. espgcltlily during the past decadmmust be abandoned, and

that induatry. frugality, and moderation are the real, the true pathstosnccess,hap-

pines. and prosperits.

BEl'l'ElL-A beautii'ni form is better than a beautiful face.

A beautiful behavior is better than a beantiful turn: it is more the beauties of nature or of painting.

Itis the finest oi the tide arts.

Fur Ladies. Gentlememand Children.

HOSIERY AND FA XCY 'OOLENS,

SCA RPS,

JACKETS,

GAITERS,

Good quality goods at lowest prices, at

HOMAN'S.

1m Sixth street.

THOMAS SMITH. ARTIST,

025 Sixteenth :treet.

Homan Hall.

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reruns.

SKIRTIXGS,

CHIN-Mrs,

CL'OAKXNGS,

All at prices ten per cent. less than ruled last week.

GARSER 6'. 00..

921 Sixth street.

Wholesale and Retail Deniers in FINE FAMILY URUCERXES,

FLOUR, AND

PRODUCE Godds delivered in all parts oi the city.

NEW GOODS.

JOHN LEVY,

9% Chestnut street,

Has just received a large lot of CHOICE Goons,

which are otiered nt reduced prices.

OTAKY PRINTING PRESS Will be sold at a bargain liapplied for today. 9'3 Third st.

n. RETERS,,FHOTOLITHOGRAPHER. WASHINGTON, n. c.-

UNITED STATES ATENT WILLIAM D. HUGHES, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN METHODS OF IMPOSING AND PRINTING FROM NEWSPAPER FORMS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 165,833, dated July 20, 1875; application filed September 18, 1874. I

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM D. HUGHES, of the city of Philadelphia, in the State of Pennsylvania, have invented a certain new and useful Method of Imposing and Printing from Newspaper Forms; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it pertains to make use of the same.

The object of my invention is to so improve the method of printing newspapers as to greatly increase the capacity of printingpresses to furnish papers containing the latest news. This object is accomplished by my method hereinafter described, to the extent of at least doubling the capacity of any press during the only time which is of value in the use of the press for newspaper printing, namely, the time from the receipt of thelatest news till the completion of the printing of the whole edition. This increased capacity may be utilized in either of four ways: First, at least double the number of papers can be supplied which any press or presses could by the only process known previous to my invention furnish in a given time from the moment of the insertion of the latest .news in the form; second, closing the news at the same time as by the existing method the printing of the edition can be completed in half the time now consumed thereby, and consequently the edition be much sooner delivered to the readers; third, the latest news may be waited for and inserted for a period longer by fully half the time now occupied in printing the whole edition, and yet the whole edition be completed by the same hour it is by the existing method; fourth, by this fast-printing process a much larger margin of time is given for the procuring of information, the setting of type, and the correction of proofs.

My invention is applicable in all cases where all the pages of the paper are worked at once,

and this has become the general rule, as it greatly facilitates the work.

The manner of printing newspapers heretofore most generally practiced has been to print all the pages of a newspaper at one impression on one side of a double sheet, and then, re versing the sheet, print the opposite side, and

out the sheet into two complete newspapers. In order that the latest news received might be inserted, all the forms have been necessarily withheld from the press until that object was accomplished. The presswork then commenced at the last moment to which the wait ing for news could be extended, each impression made being equal to the printing of one complete newspaper to each cylinder. Usually the time occupied in printing an edition of a daily paper cannot be extended over a longer period than about two hours, in order that the papers may be furnished in seasonable time to the readers. The balance of the day the press stands idle and allthe attendants unemployed. It had not, previous to my invention, been discovered that all the pages of a newspaper might be put to press in advance of their containing the latest news intended for publication in the issue, and half of the presswork be done before the final closing of the forms, and yet each copy of the paper thus put to press in advance be made to contain all the latest news received up to the usual hour of going to press or later, accord; ing to whichever of the four available ways already noted the publisher may choose to avail himself of the advantages of my invention.

The process invented by me is applied in this manner to the )rinting-tbr exampleof a tour-page newspaper, for the sake of illustration supposing it to be an evening paper, in the printing of which time is specially valuable, and which cannot possibly be delayed later than four oclock in order to complete the edition in proper season for circulation. The four pages are closed with all the matter at hand at three oclock and put to'press. Working one side of the double sheet continuously, and avoiding all stoppages, that side of the whole edition will be printed within one hour. Meanwhile, while the printing has been going on, say, between three and four oclock, whatever later news may have come to hand will have been put in type in duplicate. The forms are then opened, the duplicate matter almost instantaneously inserted in two opposite pages, the location of the new matter being, at option, one of the duplicates on the first or fourth page, and the other of the duplicates a four-page journal.

that one-half of the edition'will havethe'news upon the first or second page, and the -.other half upon the third or fourth page. By this method the actual printing is completed in half the usual time.

The accompanying two sheets of drawings illustrate the inventiom'Sheet .1 showing an impression from a four page form, as made up for printing the first side of two papers; and

:Sheet'2 showing an impression from the same form arranged for printing the second side, with the duplicates inserted onthefirst and third pages.

If it be desirable .to wait, say, an hour longer for news, the edition .remaining the same in number as in-the first instance, the first side'will be sent to .press at'four olclock, the-news inserted at fi\'e,-an'd the. editionstill be completed -.at vsix. Thus, while giving an additional hour for newsgathering, 860-, a thing of the utmost=importance, the-work .is yet finished as early as heretofore.

While expediting the work, as above-set :forth my invention also gives amuch {greater margin to editors, reporters, telegraphic agents,

and compositors,.as the press-work may be actually going on-while type is still being-set andproofs-read and corrected, thus obviating many errors heretofore occurring in journals byreason of their being-indispensably;putto. press in haste, a difificulty. for which there had' not heretofore been conceived a remedy.

In the case of an eight-page newspaper,-the size of the press being sufficiently large to admit all of the-pages, the application of my invention is obviously as useful as in -the case of It will thereforebe un derstood that .the substance of myinvention is to print all the pages-of a newspaper at'the same time, first printing the one side of .two

papers, of one paper the-first andfourthpages, of theother the second'and third'page's, then;

printing the other side ofv the two papersthat is, backing the first papeuwith the second and third pages, and vthe second paperwith the first and 'fourth pagesthe backing in each paper containing all the latest news, consisting ot'matt'er which was notin the form at the time thefirst side was printed, thus ena-; bling so much of the work to-be done in advance of a period when the value of timeis inestimable, previous to which period-the press and the pressmen arensually idle.

It is obvious that my invention will in many establishments enable the expensive and delaying process of stereotyping to be dispensed with, for the reason that all that has been heretofore accomplished with two forms (duplicates) and two presses can by my process -be done with one form and one press. Of course advertisements and other matter may "also be inserted in the whole edition in-the same manner as the latest news, or with it.

Another most valuable increase of .speed is accomplished bymy process, in that, as soon as the late news is upon the press, the delivery of the papers commences, whereas it is =now the-common practice'to wait until a considerable number of papers are printed 011 one side before it is worth while to turn the paper for backing, in which way fully a half hour is frequently lost, to-the great inconvenienceof thejpublisher and the: public. Print- =ers, particularly expertsin the craft, .will readily see that thisprevention .of delay amounts to: a considerable time which is most'valuable, either for the purpose of waiting longer for late news or for the printing of amuchlarger edition in the 5 given time; Besides,as :both sides of .the paper-are by my methodprinted without stops, delays are zprevented which heretofore were unavoidable-that is, stop- ;ping thepress for the purpose of turning the paper for backing,;as well asthe balksin feeding, getting sheets upon the rollers-and similar annoying :delays, which are the frequent and familiar consequences 'of such stoppages, and which stoppages, in the opinion of the most :experiencedpressmen, retard the progress of the press fully ten minutes in each case. Thusit will-be seen that six such-stops woulcbbe the loss of vanhour,-and;at.a period whentimeis of .theigreatest value. v

In the use of myinventionptwo copies of the paper being perfected :at the final printing containing thelatest news by'each cylinder, therefore, with a ten-cylinder rotary press, twenty v.copies are printed at each revolution of the press. .Thus, from a,press :of twenty thousand present capacity, forty thousand pa- .persper hour can as readily bersupplied accordingtomy method.

,The matter necessary to beset in duplicate is in most-cases inconsiderable, as it is the custom .of the most enterprisingpublishers-to waitforrather than set news .for an hour or longer previous :to putting their journals to press, generally but little .in quantity being received at so late an hour 5 and whilethese duplicates-.frequenty maynot exceed fivehundred or a thousand ems, they become more valuable vthan duplicate forms, theirntility being apparent in that one press accomplishes .that whichotherwise would requiretwo. Be- =sides,it iscustomary to pay-bythehour the compositors who wait, consequently the setting of the duplicates will generally cost nothing, as the time of such waits must be paid for, work orno work.

Having thusdescribed my invention, what I claim asnew, anddesire to havesecuredto me by Letters Patent, is-

1. The method hereinbefore described of perfecting from one form at one impression two newspapers, each of which shall contain news or other matter not in the form when the first side of the two papers of each impression was printed, namely, by inserting before printing the second side of double sheets the later news or other matter in two opposite pages of the form from which the first side of the double sheets has been previously printed, the said form comprising all the pagesof the newspaper. I

2. The method of facilitating the issue of newspapers, which consists substantially as hereinbefore described, in putting all the pages ber, 1874.

W. D. HUGHES.- Witnesses:

JOHN M. YOUNG, 0. W. KEESE. 

